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Blackwater the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Jeremy Scahill
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Description for Blackwater the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Paperback. Helps you meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has hired to operate in international war zones and on American oil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops, but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that, far from damaging the company, have led to an unprecedented period of expansion. This revised and updated edition includes Scahill's continued investigative work into one of the outrages of our time: the privatisation of war.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846686528
SKU
V9781846686528
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an unembedded, international journalist. He has covered the war in Iraq; the downfall of Milosevic's government in Serbia; the suppression of oil protests in the Niger Delta; and the use of mercenaries in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power. Scahill has won numerous journalism awards, included a prestigious Lannan Foundation fellowship for Blackwater, which is his first book.
Reviews for Blackwater the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Meticulously researched and fascinating ... Scahill does a fine job
Sunday Times
Scahill deserves commendation.
New Statesman
Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting.
Naomi Klein, author No Logo An explosive piece of investigative journalism
Ben Myers
Shortlist
Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme.
Michael Moore, Academy Award Winning Director A powerful argument against the privatisation of war... exemplary... If the job of writing about "the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army" seems mightily ambitious, it has been undertaken by just the right person... he's the sort of writer who sets out the evidence and lets us make up our own minds
Big Issue
Revelatory
Aimee Shalan
Guardian
An exhaustively well-researched expose
Alastair Mabbott
Herald
[A] revealing study
Tom Widger
Sunday Tribune
Sunday Times
Scahill deserves commendation.
New Statesman
Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting.
Naomi Klein, author No Logo An explosive piece of investigative journalism
Ben Myers
Shortlist
Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme.
Michael Moore, Academy Award Winning Director A powerful argument against the privatisation of war... exemplary... If the job of writing about "the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army" seems mightily ambitious, it has been undertaken by just the right person... he's the sort of writer who sets out the evidence and lets us make up our own minds
Big Issue
Revelatory
Aimee Shalan
Guardian
An exhaustively well-researched expose
Alastair Mabbott
Herald
[A] revealing study
Tom Widger
Sunday Tribune